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Two vessels have served the British Royal Navy as HMS Resolue, the French from "Resolute". Both were captured French ships:
Six ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Temeraire. The name entered the navy with the capture of the first Temeraire from the French in 1759:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Implacable:
Six ships and a naval station of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Tamar, after the River Tamar in South West England:
Twelve vessels of the French Navy have been named Duguay-Trouin in honour of René Duguay-Trouin.
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Elizabeth. Most of these ships have been named in honour of Queen Elizabeth I of England:
Five ships of the French Navy have borne the name Révolutionnaire ("Revolutionary"):
Résolue was an Iphigénie-class 32-gun frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her twice, once in November 1791 during peacetime, and again in 1798. The Royal Navy hulked her in 1799 and she was broken up in 1811.
Thirty-nine vessels of the Royal Navy and its predecessors have borne the name Swallow, as has one dockyard craft, one naval vessel of the British East India Company, and at least two revenue cutters, all after the bird, the Swallow:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lurcher
Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Resolute. Another was planned but never completed:
HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy:
Concorde was a 32-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Built in Rochefort in 1777, she entered service with the French early in the American War of Independence and was soon in action, capturing HMS Minerva in the West Indies. She survived almost until near the end of the war when HMS Magnificent captured her in 1783. Not immediately brought into service due to the draw-down in the navy after the end of the war, Concorde underwent repairs and returned to active service with the outbreak of war with France in 1793 as the fifth-rate HMS Concorde.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Espion, meaning "spy". A fourth vessel was going to bear the name but was given another name instead:
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Poulette, after the French diminutive for the hen of the chicken:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pandour, after the Pandurs, an 18th-century force of Croatian soldiers, who served the Habsburg Monarchy as skirmishers and who had a reputation for brutality:
Numerous French naval vessels have borne the name Résolue, the French for "Resolute", as have several privateers.
Many vessels have been named Comet, after the astronomical object comet.
HMS Resolue was the Spanish xebec O Hydra, that the French captured in 1794 and renamed Résolue in 1795. The British captured her in 1795; she was last listed in 1802.
Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sylph after the air spirits known as sylphs:
Two vessels have served the British Royal Navy as HMS Bustler: